Arab-Israeli Conflict: What issues remain? Web Quest!

Arab-Israeli Conflict: What issues remain?

Web Quest!

Arab-Israeli Conflict

Directions: Click on the links and explore the

sources to find the answers to the corresponding questions.

Record your answers on the paper, OR type your responses and email them to [email protected] . If you choose to type, number the responses accordingly!

Arab-Israeli Conflict: Geography

Go to Two Peoples, Divided. Click on the “Show Legend” button in the top right corner.

1. Question: What do the areas marked in BLUE represent and what problems might their locations cause given the hostility between the Palestinians and the Israelis (Remember: The West Bank is supposedly Palestinian controlled)?

Arab-Israeli Conflict: Geography Go to “United Nations Relief and Works

Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (Refugee Camp Map).”

2. Looking at the map (click to zoom in). List the total amount of refugees (camps and not in camps)a. Jordan ________________b. Lebanon _______________c. Syria __________________d. West Bank _____________e. Gaza __________________

Arab-Israeli Conflict: Geography

Go to BBC News: Jerusalem in 1967 and Now

3. Question: What differences do you see between the two maps?

4. Question: Why is the current control of Jerusalem disputed?

Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Israeli Perspective

Go to Pro-Israel.org – The Friends of Israel Portal (Watch the Flash video and answer the questions below).

5. How is Israel’s government different than the surrounding Arab and Iranian governments?

6. For every Israeli, there are how many Arabs and Iranians?

7. For every dollar Israel spends on its military, the Arab/Iranian countries spend how much?

8. Does Israel have crude oil reserves (This means oil to make gasoline, etc.)?


Go to Jewish Virtual Library: Index of Myths: Settlements “Israel has no right to be in the West Bank. Israeli settlements are illegal.”

9. Question: Why are Israeli settlements legal according to this source?


Go to Jewish Virtual Library: Index of Myths: Refugees: “One million Palestinians were expelled by Israel from 1947-49.”

10. Question: Why did Palestinian refugees flee according to this source?


Go to Myths and Facts: Jerusalem

11. Question: According to this source, why should Israel maintain control of Jerusalem?


Go to AL Monitor’s article “Why the barrier had to be built”

12.Question: According to this source, why does there need to be a security wall between Israel and Palestine?


Watch the Wall St. Journal’s video clip about Israeli airport security.

13. Question: From the Israeli perspective, what measures are working to keep Israel safe?

Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestinian Perspective

Go to the BBC News Site on Palestinian life. View the flash slide show and browse the different sections.

14. Question: What does life seem to be like for Palestinians and what complaints might they have against Israel?


Go to If Americans Knew: Home Demolitions

15. Question: Why does the Israeli government demolish some Palestinian homes?


Go to the Palestinian Monitor’s article about settlements.

16. Question: What does this source have to say about the Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Palestinian territory?


Go to the Stop the Wall info page.

17. Question: Why do Palestinians call the wall the “apartheid” wall?

18. Question: Why are Palestinians opposed to this wall?


Go to If Americans Knew: Food as a Weapon

19. Question: What does this source have to say about how Gaza is a victim of Israel?


Go to “Old City of Jerusalem Under Attack”

20. Question: According to this article, what problem has emerged in an undivided Jerusalem?

Arab-Israeli Conflict: What issues remain? Web Quest!

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